KMC Information

For information about the Kaplan Medical Center (KMC) please see the sections below.

Information about the American Friends of Kaplan Medical Center is on this page.

Kaplan Medical Center

Summary

The Kaplan Medical Center (KMC), located in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1953 and is one of the largest hospitals in the CLALIT Health Services network, Israel’s largest health services (HMO) provider as well as the second largest health services provider in the world. KMC is renowned in Israel for the excellent medical services it provides to over 1,000,000 citizens under its catchment area.

The Kaplan Medical Center is an academic medical institution. The 554 bed facility is a teaching hospital affiliated with the Medical Schools of the Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem and Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. KMC has over 50 wards and units approved for residency training as well as for teaching medical students in their clinical years. In addition, The Kaplan Medical Center campus includes a Nursing School, a Radiology Technicians School as well as a School for New Immigrant Physicians who require additional medical training before they become eligible to practice medicine in Israel.

In 2017, Kaplan has treated as many as 143,500 ER patients, 46,000 admissions and 365,500 outpatient visits.

In February 2017, The Kaplan Medical Center was re-examined by the Joint Commission International (JCI) and has received its re-accreditation approval. KMC first received JCI's accreditation approval in 2010. The accreditation process assesses the health care organization to determine if it meets the international set of excellence standards requirements designed to improve quality of care and patient safety. A JCI accreditation affords the KMC to gain not only an international reputation but also to be recognized as a medical tourism location by international insurance companies. So far, only two other hospitals in the Clalit network were awarded such a recognition.

As a community hospital, the Kaplan Medical Center represents and consists of the most advanced departments in all major medical fields and boasts a nationally recognized medical staff. To remain in the forefront of technology and medical standards, its medical staff collaborates with major academic and research institutions in Israel (primarily, with the Weizmann Institute of Science and The Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and abroad.

At the time of its construction in 1953, this regional hospital located on a 60 acres campus, consisted of hastily built barracks with 88 inpatient beds to absorb the growing immigrant and local population of 50,000 spread in the neighboring towns and new cities, this medical facility intended to provide medical services to the Southern part of Israel.

Over the years, some of the hospital facilities were upgraded to accommodate the ever-growing population of the area and its development plans included erecting more modern facilities to replace the original barrack structures. During the unprecedented influx of immigrant population in Israel’s history in the eighties and nineties, the population under the hospital’s catchment area had grown proportionally and, as of today, it boasts over 1,000,000 people spread in Israel’s heartland.

KMC Mission Statement

The mission of Kaplan Medical Center is to become a center of medical excellence by providing high-quality professional care and services.

Patients and their family are the focus of KMC's activities, which include providing excellent, first-class, superior, up-to-date treatments and humane care, while preserving patients' dignity and rights.

The KMC will continue to act in full cooperation with the community to ensure the health of its residents and to assure a continuum of the health care provided to them by maintaining continuous communication and data flow between the medical center and the community health services.

Kaplan Medical Center aims to become and serve as a model for environmental care ensuring that future construction development will be “green”, providing a healthy work and care environment.

The KMC will continue to be a medical center that attracts high quality professional and medical services personnel.

KMC leadership

Dr. Sarit Avishai Eliner MD, M.H.A. became the new CEO of the Kaplan Medical Center on November 1, 2018. Previously she was deputy CEO of KMC since March 2016 and the Medical Director of the Jerusalem District in Clalit Health Services from year 2007 to 2016. Dr. Avishai Eliner returns to Kaplan after being Deputy CEO of the medical center from 2000 to 2007.

Dr. Avishai Eliner did her residency in Pediatrics at the Kaplan Medical Center. She did her fellowship in Pediatric Intensive Care at the Children Hospital in Los Angeles, USA (1991-1995). Dr Avishai Eliner received her M.A. degree at the Health Management Faculty in the University of Beer Sheva and earned a degree as a Specialist in Medical Administration in 2004. She is the Head of the Health and Medical Management Department at Kaplan Medical Center.

Dr. Avishai Eliner serves as an advisor at the Online Medicine in Pediatrics Clalit's service and at the Family Medicine and Skin Medicine community services of Clalit Health Services.

Dr. Jacob Haviv, MD, M.P.H. has been the Deputy CEO of Kaplan Medical Center since summer 2015. Previously, he was the Military Attaché and representative of the Israeli Defense Ministry in Russia since 2011. Before that, Dr. Haviv was the Deputy CEO of Barzilai hospital in Ashqelon. From 1988 until 2010, he did several duties as a medical officer in the IDF and retired from the IDF with the rank of Colonel.

Dr. Haviv earned his MD degree in 1988 from the Sackler School of Medicine, University of Tel Aviv and completed his Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) in 1994 from the School of Public Health, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dr. Tsehori earned her MD degree (cum laude) in 1992 from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and completed her specialization in Pediatric Medicine in 1999 (cum laude), which she continued practicing until 2017 at Maccabi Healthcare Services, also as a District Pediatrician.

In addition to her MHA degree from Tel Aviv University (2008), she earned a degree as a Specialist in Medical Administration in 2014 from Maccabi Healthcare Services and Assuta Medical Center. Furthermore, Dr. Tsehori has completed medical training programs in Juvenile Medicine, Learning Disabilities and Eating Disorders both in Israel and abroad.

Ziva Levin Barabi, COO Kaplan Medical Center since summer 2016. She has been the deputy COO of Hasharon hospital, the COO of Clalit's Central district and the head of the logistics for the Jerusalem district, Clalit Health Services. She also worked for the Southern district of Clalit for several years.

Ziva received both her B.Sc. degree in Biology and M.Sc. degree in Health Systems Management at Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheba, Israel.

Dr. Yardena Kol, R.N., Ph.D., Chief Nurse Executive of Kaplan Medical Center since 2006. She has been the Head of Department of professional planning and development, Chief Nurse Office (Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv).

She is an active member of a team that develops professional guidelines in selected areas, was a member of the editorial board of the national society for health information systems and developed professional classification systems as a national standards for interventions and outcomes assessment, and implementation in electronic information systems.

Dr. Kol received her Ph.D degree at University of Haifa, Public Management Faculty.

Amir Ben Ari, M.B.A., has been the CFO of the Kaplan Medical Center since October 2013. Previously he was the head of Pharmacoeconomics and pricing department in Clalit HQ since 2008, and an economist in Clalit HQ since 2004.

Amir received both his academic degrees from the University of Tel Aviv: M.B.A degree in Business Administration from the School of Management, and a Bachelor degree in Economics and Management from the School of Social Science.

KMC Facts and Figures

Serving the heartland of Israel, KMC is renowned in Israel for the excellent medical services it provides to more than 1,000,000 people (about 12% of Israel's population) in its catchment area. This includes:

39% of Israel’s Ethiopian community

Large community of immigrants from the former Soviet Union

Large Sephardic community

Large minority population

Many of the people cared for at KMC are of middle to low socio-economic status. Most of them have community specific health issues and depend heavily on the hospital's services.

Physical Presence

Total Area: 60 Acres (241 Dunums)

Built Area: 1,054,869 square ft (98,000 square meters)

Academic Accreditations and Education

Affiliated with the Hebrew University Medical School and Hadassah Medical center in Jerusalem

Accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI) as a teaching hospital

Teaching Hospital

Over 50 wards and services are recognized for Residency training

Nursing School

School for radiology technicians

School for immigrant physicians

Operational Statistics

Budget

Operating Budget: $254 Million (ILS 890 Million)

Employees

Total employees: 2,600

Physicians: 560

Nurses: 1,080

Sanitary personnel & other services: 960

Infrastructure

Hospital Beds: 706

General: 554

Day care: 75

Dialysis: 17

Newborns: 54

Operating Rooms: 10

Ambulatory Operating Rooms: 5

Emergency Stations: 32

General ER: 17

Gyn ER: 7

Obstetric ER: 4

Pediatric ER: 4

2017 Activity Statistics

ER visits: 143,400

Admissions: 45,900

Hospitalization days: 182,700

Outpatient visits: 365,400

Surgeries: 15,600

Deliveries: 6,600

KMC Medical Departments

As a community hospital, the Kaplan Medical Center represents and consists of the most advanced departments in all major medical fields and boasts a nationally recognized medical staff.

To remain in the forefront of technologial and medical standards, its medical staff collaborates with major academic and research institutions in Israel (primarily with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot and The Hebrew University in Jerusalem) and abroad.

Following are some of KMC's departments combining medical excellence with state-of-the art technology:

Catheterization Lab which includes all the non-invasive cardiology sub-specialties. The hospital is currently performing replacement of the aortic valve, comparable to the most advanced cardiology centers in the world. A state-of-the-art Diagnostic (e.g. innovative 3D catheterization) and Treatment Center for Cardiovascular Disorders, including the entire spectrum of non-invasive imaging.

The Ilan Ramon Emergency Department and Trauma Unit engineered for effective triage, considered in Israel as a leader in the field of Emergency and Trauma Medicine. The Department named in memory of the late Col. Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, who perished on January 16, 2003 with the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107.

Pediatric Care The Pediatric Department of the Kaplan Medical Center sees annually 55,000 age 0-16 young patients. Its current in-patient 60-bed wards accommodates over 6,000 children annually. Due to the very difficult physical conditions of the department, the Kaplan Medical Center had constructed a new Pediatric Medical Center in which part of the Pediatric Department was transferred in January 2012, upon completion of State 1 of the construction. Still to be relocated to the state-of-the-art new facility: the Child Development Unit, the Pediatric Clinics, and the Pediatric Day Care Unit.

Israeli Friends of KMC

The Israeli Friends of Kaplan Medical Center (IFKMC), a non-profit organization based in Israel, has spent more than 30 years dedicated to building, purchasing medical equipment, and improving hospital conditions. Please read more here about this group's efforts.